Non-mentoring Mentoring

       Young women hunger for mentoring, but did you know that the dropout rate of young women in traditional mentoring programs is as high as eighty percent in the first six months? Mentoring methods and styles that worked for my generation, yes, older women, don't work today. Remember Laura Singleton's May 6 blog When Mentoring Programs Fail. Ditto said young women interviewed by Dr. Barbara Newmann, my former D.Min. student, when she queried them as part of her doctoral dissertation. Her confidential interviews revealed that the formal, structured, curriculum-centered, mentor-centered approach favored by many older women does not appeal to this generation. So what works today?

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